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Jacob Paul and Sarah/Sara
Tue, 05/11/2010 - 7:00pm

Jacob Paul will read from and sign his debut novel, Sarah/Sara. An engrossing meditation on the meaning of faith, Sarah/Sara is the story of a young Orthodox Jewish woman who undertakes a solo kayaking journey across the Arctic Ocean after her parents are killed and she is disfigured by a terrorist bomb in a Jerusalem café.

Jacob Paul is an associate professor of English at the University of Utah. A 9/11 World Trade Center survivor, he won the 2008 Utah Writers' Contest, and the 2007 Richard Scowcroft Prize.

Sarah/Sara (Paperback)

By Jacob Paul
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9781935439134
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Ig Publishing, 04/01/2010

Left spiritually and physically scarred by a suicide bomber in
Jerusalem, Sarah retreats to the wilderness to rediscover faith. With a
bottle of twelve year old scotch tied to the bow like a mascot, the
silent, beautiful landscape rolls slowly by, and she forges onward in
her kayak, through a new world that has become cold and hostile. Every
dip of her paddle in the icy waters of the Alaskan coastline, every
painful step she takes on frozen, blackened feet, brings her, and us, a
little bit closer to the truth that she seeks: how can we find meaning
in a world that can lash out at us with no warning, and with such
violence?

—Aaron Cance